Don Bender grew up in Naperville and graduated from Naperville Central High School. He caught the entrepreneurial bug from his father, Marty Bender, and started a pig roasting business in 2004.
After he had some financial difficulty in 2009, they restructured the business in January 2011 as DD Pig Roasts based in the Bender’s Naperville home.
“We will do over 100 pig roasts this year, many in Naperville and the surrounding areas,” says Marty Bender, general manager and part owner. “We have done graduations, weddings, birthdays, block parties, homeowners associations, swim club and corporate picnics with a lot of repeat business.”
DD Pig Roasts brings the party to the customer, cooks on site over charcoal, uses barbecue sauce manufactured solely for their company, and the pig becomes the main attraction.
“We do a lot of corporate events and have served as many as 3,000 people at an event,” Marty says. “We also do smaller family events, like a party for a family whose daughter was graduating from Naperville North and then we returned four years later when she graduated from college.”
DD Pig Roasts is inspected regularly by the Illinois Health Department and consistently passes with high marks.
